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10 things nobody wants to admit about Riverdale

By Michael Patterson

Riverdale -- "Chapter Sixty-Six: Tangerine" -- Image Number: RVD409b_0161.jpg -- Pictured (L-R): KJ Apa as Archie, Camila Mendes as Veronica, Cole Sprouse as Jughead and Lili Reinhart as Betty -- Photo: Jack Rowand/The CW-- © 2019 The CW Network, LLC All Rights Reserved.
Riverdale -- "Chapter Sixty-Six: Tangerine" -- Image Number: RVD409b_0161.jpg -- Pictured (L-R): KJ Apa as Archie, Camila Mendes as Veronica, Cole Sprouse as Jughead and Lili Reinhart as Betty -- Photo: Jack Rowand/The CW-- © 2019 The CW Network, LLC All Rights Reserved. /
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6. The superpowers were boring

Riverdale out-of-context has always been a laugh. Whether it was the clips with its campy dialogue doing the rounds on social media or an engaging tweet thread recounting some of the unbelievable happenings in the town with pep, the show caught people’s attention (for both the right and wrong reasons).

There was no greater example of that than season 6. The season in which the show finally delved into the supernatural, it was revealed that the gang had gotten superpowers, a bomb ripped an explosion in the space-time continuum, and a parallel dimension known as Rivervale existed. There were also Guardian Angels, immortal babies, and a town-destroying comet. And those who had tuned out of Riverdale years ago were in awe any time they came across these little tidbits online.

Out of context that all sounds amazing. Unfortunately, in context it wasn’t. Don’t get us wrong, the concepts were interesting and the potential was there, but the show got bogged down in the multiversal mumbo jumbo of it all that it never stopped to focus on the characters it was all happening to. Characters were at the mercy of the plot, with all the typical plot devices (a.k.a. Alice, Kevin, Uncle Frank) being mindless minions for new evil big bad Percival Pickens, and the villain himself being far too powerful to overcome (and really very uninteresting), making for a long, predictable season.

The whole concept of saving the town of Riverdale had also outstayed its welcome, with all of the storylines revolving around the town itself instead of the people in it. And it all just made for an utterly joyless and boring affair – two things that super powers should not be.

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